Word: vigor
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DOCTOR ARNOLD or RUGBY-Arnold Whitridge-Holt ($3.00). In Tom Brown's School-Days Thomas Arnold is immortalized as the formidable headmaster, rex atque sacerdos. In his son Matthew's ode on Rugby Chapel he stands with "radiant vigor." In Dean Stanley's enthusiastic biography he is the religiously inspired pedagog. And in Strachey's flashing satiric sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold...
...vigor swift, his passion long...
Last week, only nine teams remained upon the floor. These, in the order of their apparent vigor and the amount of prize money which they received for special clowning dances, spinning, black bottoms, displays of beauty, good humor and other noteworthy feats, together with their orignal occupations and wages, were as follows...
...Council of the League of Nations kept a gavel rattling sharply, last week, as order was repeatedly commanded by Chairman Senor Aristines Aguero y Betancourt of Cuba. He, popular in Berlin, as the suave, easy-going Cuban Minister, conducted the soth League Council session at Geneva, Switzerland, with vigor, tact, address. Small Cuba sat metaphorically enthroned over the Powers due to a system of alphabetical rotation which lifts up each nation in turn to the League's High Chai...
Displaying fresh power and vigor, the University baseball team, hammering the offerings of three opposing pitchers, overwhelmed the William and Mary nine yesterday on Soldiers Field in a 13 to 2 victory. It was the first win over a college aggregation since the Brown game...